TABLES OF TRINITY 53 



THE EPOCH OF HOPE. 



As Evolution proceeds on its slow course through this 

 Epoch of Hope which extends from man's triumph over the 

 animal creation, when learning how to sin by evolving a will 

 of his own which gave him the possibility of ultimately gaining 

 the reward of immortality, down to the year of 1800 A.D., we 

 follow the gradual return of the Spirit of God the Mother and 

 her attributes to mankind through the agencies of woman's 

 love and the influences of religion and redemption to the com- 

 pletion of the Epochs of Hope ; of Devolution and of Evolution. 

 For Faith and material life were governed by the spirit of divine 

 obedience, till love dawns to cast the light of belief and compre- 

 hension after the dark night of Faith when creation was 

 dominated by the uncomprehending obedience of matter and 

 animal existence to the all-powerful control of the Infinite 

 Spirit of God the Father, to be superseded in its turn by the 

 return to creation of the Spirit of God the Holy Ghost in the 

 ages of the yet unborn in the Epoch of Charity which has 

 just begun to dawn during the last century, in which man is 

 to learn to understand the truths of divine revelation. 



When knowing, he shall ''understand all things even 

 to the consummation of the world," and last but not least 

 be a religion unto himself and learn how to use, not abuse, 

 the knowledge God has granted to him but has denied to the 

 angels or animal kingdom. But bear this in mind, the extent 

 of the spiritual creation cannot vary but may alter, matter may 

 vary but cannot alter in quantity, the Almighty cannot be- 

 come greater or less, God cannot grow or vary ; and continues 

 to surround and govern and control all and every part of the 

 fragment of Himself (for the whole universe of heavens and 

 planets and stars and earths is but a fragment of the im- 

 mensity of the Infinity of God), whose power is invisible, un- 

 altered and unweakened by its severance, and continues to 

 control and nourish the fragments of Infinity He has created, 

 while the final objects of His human work and animal life are 

 being evolved. For man is only given a limited amount cf 

 freedom of action, and the use of his free will is limited practi- 

 cally to a few choices in his life, as to whether or no he chooses 

 between good and bad, and the rest is practically in the hands 

 of Fate, and he and all else must for ever be subject to the 



